I spent a lot of my formative years working in Birmingham schools under the leadership of Professor Tim Brighouse. I met him on three occasions, received two scrawled letters of appreciation, as did my students! I therefore followed his pronouncements assiduously.
He once accused, correctly in my opinion, Chris Woodhead’s Ofsted as being a “reign of terror” and, crucially, believed that real improvement depends upon raising teachers’ confidence and morale rather than confronting them with shortcomings.
It is therefore, perhaps, contradictory that I have now become an Ofsted inspector undergoing an invaluable year’s training inclusive of a bewildering online phonics test and videos encapsulating the myriad of LGBT issues.
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